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Guidance on EIA Scoping - European Commission

See our publications catalogue at: FOR OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONSOF THE European COMMUNITIESL-2985 LuxembourgEuropean Commission15 16 14KH-12-01-002-EN-NISBN 92-894-1335-29789289413350 Guidance on EIAS copingJune 2001A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the can be accessed through the Europa server ( ).Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2001 ISBN 92-894-1335-2 European Communities, 2001 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is Resources ManagementNorloch House, 36 King's Stables Road,Edinburgh EH1 2 EUTelephone 0131 478 6000 Facsimile 0131 478 3636 Email ON EIAG uidance on EIAS copingJune 2001 CONTENTSFOREWORD TO THE Guidance ON SCOPINGPART A Scoping IN EIAA1 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and ScopingA2 The Scoping Requirements of Directives 85/337/EEC and 97/11/ECA3 Implementation of Scoping in the and Voluntary Scoping Reports and ConsultationsPART BPRACTICAL Guidance ON SCOPINGB1 IntroductionB2 Use of the GuidanceB

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1 See our publications catalogue at: FOR OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONSOF THE European COMMUNITIESL-2985 LuxembourgEuropean Commission15 16 14KH-12-01-002-EN-NISBN 92-894-1335-29789289413350 Guidance on EIAS copingJune 2001A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the can be accessed through the Europa server ( ).Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2001 ISBN 92-894-1335-2 European Communities, 2001 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is Resources ManagementNorloch House, 36 King's Stables Road,Edinburgh EH1 2 EUTelephone 0131 478 6000 Facsimile 0131 478 3636 Email ON EIAG uidance on EIAS copingJune 2001 CONTENTSFOREWORD TO THE Guidance ON SCOPINGPART A Scoping IN EIAA1 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

2 And ScopingA2 The Scoping Requirements of Directives 85/337/EEC and 97/11/ECA3 Implementation of Scoping in the and Voluntary Scoping Reports and ConsultationsPART BPRACTICAL Guidance ON SCOPINGB1 IntroductionB2 Use of the GuidanceB3 Scoping by the Competent Scoping by the DeveloperB4 Scoping Information and for OutputsB5 Scoping to to for Effective on Scoping ConsultationB6 Scoping Significant Possible Alternatives and MitigationCHECKLIST OF INFORMATION NEEDED FOR SCOPINGCONSULTATIONS CHECKLISTSCOPING CHECKLISTCHECKLIST OF CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACTSCHECKLIST ON ALTERNATIVES AND MITIGATION MEASURESA ppendix AENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS SETOUT IN ANNEX IV OF DIRECTIVE 97/11/ECPREFACE TO EU Guidance ON EIAE nvironmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a key instrument of European Unionenvironmental policy.

3 Since passage of the first EIA Directive in 1985 (Directive85/337/EEC) both the law and the practice of EIA have evolved. An amendingDirective was published in 1997 (Directive 97/11/EC) and the European Commissionis now pleased to publish three Guidance documents reflecting current EU legislationand the current state of good practice. These documents concern three specificstages in the EIA process: Screening Scoping EIS aim of the Guidance is to provide practical help to those involved in these stagesin the EIA process, drawing upon experience from around Europe and following the Screening and Scoping Guidance it is hoped that better decisionswill be made on the need for EIA and on the terms of reference for the studies thatare required, thus starting the EIA process off on a better footing.

4 The EIS Reviewguidance aims to help developers and their consultants prepare better qualityEnvironmental Impact Statements and competent authorities and other interestedparties to review them more effectively, so that the best possible information is madeavailable for decision Guidance is designed principally for use by competent authorities, developersand EIA practitioners in the European Union Member States and AccessionCountries. It is hoped that it will also be of interest to academics and otherorganisations who participate in EIA training and education and to practitioners fromaround the Guidance has been designed to be useful across Europe and it cannot reflect allthe specific requirements and practice of EIA in different countries.

5 It also cannotsubstitute for Member State Guidance on EIA which should always be referred tofirst. It should also always be read in conjunction with the Directives and withnational or local EIA legislation, as detailed legal requirements vary throughout theMember States and Accession Guidance has been prepared by Environmental Resources Management (ERM)under a research contract with the Directorate General for Environment of theEuropean Commission . Those who participated in the study are listed terms used in the Guidance are explained in a of the Guidance documents can be requested from Directorate GeneralEnvironment of the European Commission at Authors:Karen Raymond and Andrew Coates (ERM)EC Project Manager:Marc Vanderhaegen (ENV B4 European Commission , DG Environment) European CommissionSteering Group.

6 Jim Burns (Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, UK)Gert Johansen (Ministry of Environment and Energy , Denmark)Emilio Herranz (Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Spain)Ros Coverley (W S Atkins, UK)Alessandro Colombo (Joint Research Centre, European Commission )Alain Bozet (Ministere de la Region Wallone, DGRNE Administration deL Environment, Belgium)Seppo Martikainen ( ENV R4, European Commission , DG Environment)Rupert Willis (ENV A1, European Commission , DG Environment)Fotios Papoulias (ENV B2, European Commission , DG Environment)Jan de Mulder (Ministry of Flanders AMINAL Environment Administration,Belgium)Francesco La Camera (Ministero dell Ambiente, Italy)Jos Luis Salazar ( European Environment Agency)Expert Panel:Rob Verheem (Private Consultant, Netherlands)Prof Maria do Rosario Partidario (Faculdade de Ciencias e TecnologiaUniversidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)Thierry Clement (Breche & Oreade, France)Peter Brokking (Department of Infrastructure and Planning, Royal Institute ofTechnology, Sweden)Petra Winkler (Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning, Austria)Prof Constantinos Cassios (EIA Centre Department of Geography andRegional Planning, National Technical University of Athens, Greece)Research Team.

7 Dr Norbert Raschke (Germany)Catherine Sibley (UK)Rui Pimenta (Portugal)Wim Van Breusegem (Belgium)GLOSSARY OF TERMSTermExplanationAccession CountriesCountries which are seeking to become Members States of theEuropean Authority (CA)Those which the Member States designate as responsible forperforming the duties arising from the applicant for authorisation for a private Project or the publicauthority which initiates a ConsentThe decision of the Competent Authority or Authorities whichentitles the Developer to proceed with the change in the physical, natural or cultural environment broughtabout by a development Project. Effect and Impact are TeamThe team which carries out the Environmental Studies andprepares the Environmental information for submission to theCompetent AuthorityEnvironmental Impact Assessment(EIA)A term used in this document to describe the procedure whichfulfils the assessment requirements of Directive 97/11 Impact Statement(EIS)In many but not all EIA Regimes, the Environmental Informationprovided by the Developer to the Competent Authority is presentedin the form of an Environmental Impact Statement.

8 This is adocument or documents containing the Environmental Informationrequired under Article 5 of Directive 85/337/EEC as amended byDirective 97/11/EC. The abbreviation EIS is used in the guidanceto cover both Environmental Impact Statements and other formatsin which environmental information is InformationThe information provided by a Developer to a Competent Authorityon inter alia the Project and its environmental effects. Therequirements for this information are set out in Article 5 and AnnexIV of the Directive (see Environmental Impact Assessment).Environmental StudiesThe surveys and investigations carried out by the Developer andthe EIA Team in order to prepare the Environmental Information forsubmission to the Competent ListA list of thresholds and criteria for specified categories of projectsdefining those projects for which EIA is not required because theyare considered to be unlikely to have significant effects on theenvironment.

9 An exclusive list may be over-ridden by otherrequirements that EIA is required for projects in ListA list of thresholds and criteria for specified categories of projectsdefining those projects for which EIA is always required becausethey are considered to be likely to have significant effects on listSee Exclusion ListPositive ListSee Mandatory ListProjectThe execution of construction works or of other installations orschemes and other interventions in the natural surroundings andlandscape including those involving the extraction of process of establishing whether an EIS is adequate for theCompetent Authority to use it to inform the decision onDevelopment Consent. It is important to note that the decision willusually involve consideration of other information in addition to theenvironmental information, but the aim of review is to check thatthe environmental information is process by which a decision is taken on whether or not EIA isrequired for a particular process of identifying the content and extent of theEnvironmental Information to be submitted to the CompetentAuthority under the EIA TO THE Guidance ON SCOPINGThis Guidance document is about Scoping in Environmental Impact Assessment(EIA).

10 It is one of a series of three Guidance documents on EIA published by theCommission. The others are concerned with Screening in EIA and EIS is the process of determining the content and extent of the matters whichshould be covered in the environmental information to be submitted to a competentauthority for projects which are subject to five year review of implementation of Directive 85/337/EEC undertaken for TheCommission in 1997 recommended the introduction of Scoping as one of the meansof strengthening the role of EIA in achieving environmental protection. The five yearreview can be found at the recommendation of the Five Year review , Scoping was introduced inDirective 97/11/EC.


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